OASIS, the XML interoperability consortium, introduced two new technical committees (TCs), as part of its expanded process for the development of industrial XML standards. The Consortium added the OASIS Customer Information Quality TC for customer profile management and the OASIS Entity Resolution T

WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an

The W3C has released a new draft of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), filling in changes since Last Call but not yet a Candidate Recommendation.

Any XML document is part of a set of XML documents that are logically equivalent within an application context, but which vary in physical representation based on syntactic changes permitted by XML 1.0 [XML] and Namespaces in XML [Names]. This specification describes a method for generating a physic

On September 16th 1999, the Open e-Book authoring Group published a document named "Open e-Book Publication Structure 1.0". This document can be downloaded at http://www.openebook.com. (It is also available as an e-book.) However, although the content specification is a standard, each reader

One of the problems in learning a new technology like XML is getting used to the jargon. A good book will hold you by the hand, introduce terms gradually, and use them precisely and consistently. Out in the real word, though, people use imprecise terminology that often makes it hard to understand th

Java revolutionized the programming world by providing a platform-independent programming language. XML takes the revolution a step further with a platform-independent language for interchanging data. Java and XML shows how to put the two together, building real-world applications in which both the

In this article, we'll explore some of the more advanced features of the RELAX schema language by using it to create a schema for the XMLNews-Story Markup Language. Although the XMLNews-Story markup language has been superseded by the News Industry Text Format, I've chosen it because it'

XMLSolutions Corporation, a leading worldwide provider of software for conducting XML-based direct materials procurement, today announced they have been named to the LocalBusiness.com (formerly dBusiness.com) Top 50 to Watch list for the Washington, DC region. LocalBusiness.com is the leading Intern

Daniel Veillard has announced libxml 2.2.5, also known as the Gnome XML library, bringing lots of fixes and an initial XPointer implementation. The XPointer and XPath modules are both optional and operating over the tree built by libxml during the document parsing.